Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!ames!skipper!shafer From: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: New Shuttle Computers Message-ID: Date: 28 Feb 91 05:22:23 GMT References: <2352@ksr.com> <27FEB91.17144348@uc780.umd.edu> Sender: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards, Cal. Lines: 19 In-reply-to: mike@uc780.umd.edu's message of 27 Feb 91 17:14:43 GMT In article <27FEB91.17144348@uc780.umd.edu> mike@uc780.umd.edu writes: Feel free to post more info from that article, like specifics perhaps on the processor itself. I have been wanting to get more info on this subject for some time (personal curiosity) ever since I heard they were finally going to scrap the peice-of-ancient-history AP101B's with something that wasn't at least quite so ancient technologically speaking. Some people who worked on the F-8 DFBW phase II, with the AP-101s, think that these are a piece of something else entirely. (Phase I used Apollo computers, salvaged from returned capsules. When Dave Scott left Dryden, one of the presentations was "his" Apollo computer.) -- Mary Shafer shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA Of course I don't speak for NASA "A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all"--Unknown US fighter pilot